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DeeP Installation Documentation
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Sensor Based Systems, Inc.
17010 NE 190th St
Woodinville, WA 98072-8237
75454.773@COMPUSERVE.COM
(206) 827-8794
>>> DEU users, please review the Help information. <<<
Although many things look the same, there's
lot's more you can do (over 101)!
Don't forget that clicking the Right Mouse button
will edit an object. In addition, clicking the
Right Mouse Button in any menu selection exits
the menu (Esc also works). This is the quickest
way to navigate the menus!!
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│ Table of Contents │
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For Ordering Information see 15.
1. Machine Requirements/VESA video
2. Installation
3. How to start DeeP
4. Command line options
5. The DeeP.CHK, .PRJ and .TCF files
6. The DeeP Main Menu
7. The DeeP Map/Mission Editor
8. The commands
9. Tutorial
10. DPMI DeeP and DeePBSP
11. Registered DeePBSP
12. DeeP and Windows << Be sure to view this
13. DeeP and QEMM << Be sure to view this
14. DeeP and OS/2
15. DeeP and WIN95
16. Future stuff
17. Ordering information
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1. Machine Requirements / VESA video BIOS
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a. A 386 and above
b. A math co-processor is highly recommended. Speeds up DeePBSP about 4X.
c. A VGA monitor.
d. A video board with 512Kb. There are 13 different video boards
supported. Use VESA first and then try the others if they do not work.
If you don't have a VESA board or other problems, UNIVBE may work
(see below).
e. 540kb free memory and a minimum of 6MB extended, although 8MB is
recommended.
Do NOT use expanded memory with EMM386, use the NOEMS option.
f. HIMEM.SYS loaded in CONFIG.SYS.
g. FILES=20 or higher in CONFIG.SYS.
h. Approximately 2.0 MB of disk space.
i. Enough additional disk space to save DOOM/HERETIC/HEXEN levels you make.
j. A mouse (keyboard is a lot harder and some features are mouse only).
k. DOS 6.2 is optional, but again makes everything else easier.
l. If you can, Shadow the Video and System BIOS. DOOM just tells you not
to, for the reasons listed below (shadowing exaggerates the problems).
m. Overview of system considerations:
DeeP and DeePBSP stress the DRAM refresh setting more than many programs.
If you have problems with the video, check the wait states on your DRAM.
If they are set too low, you will experience "lockups" or strange
symptoms. (Windows should also be GP faulting a lot and HERETIC behaves
erratically.)
There is no "normal" system out there, but be careful if you have
a ZERO wait setting and your memory is 70ns or higher. Some 60ns chips
also do not work (on a 33Mhz system), depending on the DRAM and the board.
We have not found "ram" check programs that bring out these flaws. Every-
thing looks fine and stuff may even appear to work for a while. But if
your system likes to act up at random, take a second look at the settings.
Any system that has a "tweaked" speed (someone upped the clock speed) is
asking for trouble.
Use a small Smartdrv if you have enough memory. It helps speed up help,
reading / saving files and the display of floor and ceiling textures.
If you turn on the caching texture feature in DeeP, Smartdrv is not
required. The suggested size of Smartdrv is 256kb is you have texture
caching turned on.
DOOM works fine (in fact loads much faster) with Smartdrv (latest
Smartdrv anyway), but your system has to have at least 8MB. Smartdrive
takes extended memory away from the DeeP, so if you run out of memory,
please reduce the size of the Smartdrive cache or do not use it.
If your system acts up with Smartdrive, then of course do not use it.
DOS 6.2x or DOS 7 (WIN95) is recommended.
Use HIMEM.SYS and load DOS high (OK to do with DOOM.)
Normally we suggest selecting the VESA driver the first time, unless
you spot your card on the list.
The minimum video board has to have 512Kb of memory (more memory is OK).
The SVGA options tries to detect if you have a video board that supports
256 colors. This is not VESA and may lock up when you try it.
Some older boards are not VESA compatible, but they are SVGA with
512kb or more. In other cases, the VESA BIOS does not work correctly
(ATI is one). VESA software drivers that you can load anytime may solve
your problems.
UNIVBE is such a driver and will probably work and be fast to boot.
This driver is available from SBS and from many FTP sites.
This product is NOT made by SBS, but SciTech Software. Unzip the file
UVBE50BD.ZIP in the same directory as DeeP (or another if you like).
UVBE51BD.ZIP is a new version with lots of extra stuff, but is too large
to include.
Its available from ftp.scitechsoft.com or http://www.scitechsoft.com.
Follow the instructions given, but they are fairly simple.
Enter > UNIVBE /? to get a list of the options.
For most, entering " > UNIVBE -l " works. This loads the driver high
and autodetects your board.
Even for VESA boards, this program may speed up your video for all your
applications (DOOM works ok with it.)
If you can play DOOM reliably, you will probably be able to run DeeP.
2. Installation
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DeeP.ZIP is the shareware zipped distribution files for DeeP.
DeePreg.ZIP is the zipped registered distribution files for DeeP.
Use PKUNZIP (2.04 or later) to unzip DeeP.ZIP into any directory on your
hard drive. PKUNZIP is available from many sources, probably including
the one you obtained DeeP from. (Now this was probably in a zipped file
so you already know how to do this, right?)
Replace the DOOM2 directory with HERETIC if you have HERETIC and not
DOOM. The name is for illustration, this is just one way to do it!
Example for DOOM II (c:> prompt assumed): ------------------------
cd\ [go to root directory ]
mkdir DeeP [create a directory for DeeP]
cd Deep [go to directory ]
-- for the shareware version--
pkunzip a:DeeP.ZIP \doom\deep [unzip from your a: drive.]
-- for the registered version--
pkunzip a:DeePreg.ZIP \doom\deep [unzip from your a: drive.]
3. How to start DeeP
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DeeP is star